Lawmakers Who Are Prosecutors Attend Hearing

The Senate boasts several career prosecutors who aren’t on the Intelligence Committee, and many of them will be listening in Thursday — or even attending — to hear whether James Comey’s account of his conversations with President Trump suggest the president’s actions were improper.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, is attending the hearing as a member of the audience Thursday, and said he would be listening for how Comey characterizes the “tone and content” of his meetings with Trump, explaining that the “motive and intent reflected by the tone of these meetings could lead …